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With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.
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But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
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Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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Nothing is more certain than much of the force as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practice it.
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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
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Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.
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